eCARTO News capture the latest cartographic news and developments from around the world. If you have any general cartography items of interest then please email them to David Fraser, editor of eCARTO News.
Opinion
- What Maps Reveal About Ourselves – bbc.com
Just Maps
- Cartographic Arts: Beautiful Maps From the Atlas of Design – wired.com
- Primary Oil and Gas Deposits of the Middle East – firstlook.org
- 10 Maps That Defined 2015 – citylab.com
- Get Lost In Gorgeous 3D Maps Made From Recycled Books And Paper – huffingtonpost.com.au
- Alaska’s hidden wealth revealed – dailymail.co.uk
Analysis
- More data, mapping, can help countries tackle deforestation – devex.com
- Subcellular maps – nature.com
- Robot-subs Inform Protection of English Deep-sea Corals – hydro-international.com
- A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names – truth-and-beauty.net
History and Cartography
- Historic London – nationalgeographic.com
- Making Maps Under Fire During the Revolutionary War – nationalgeographic.com
- Gessners Globe cup of 1600 – gelehrte-gesellschaft.ch
- Norway’s National Library Discovers Rare Atlas – npr.org
- Online Toronto Historic Maps comparison tool – canadiangis.com
- George III huge map collection digitized – thehistoryblog.com
- Town Plan of Imola – leonardoda-vinci.org
Books
- Mapping The Germans – oxfordscholarship.com
- Map – Exploring The World – phaidon.com
- Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland – uchicago.edu
- Atlas of Remote Islands – theguardian.com
- Designing Better Maps – gisuser.com
- Creativity, Inc. – amy-wallace.com
- Fifty Island I Have Not Visited – theparisreview.org
Roman Maps
- Roads to Rome – moovel.com
- Long-lost Roman roads discovered on flood maps – dailymail.co.uk
- Rome Measured and Imagined – uchicago.edu
People and Cartography
- My Fulbright Life: Mireya Mayor, National Geographic Explorer – nationalgeographic.com
- Thank this Geographer for making sure new maps aren’t a total mess – wired.com
A World View through Maps
- The Globe of Economic Complexity – harvard.edu
- Flags Of The Most Popular Migrant Destination By Country – brilliantmaps.com
- 21 World Atlases All Map Lovers Should Own – brilliantmaps.com
- New Global Growth Projections Predict the Decade of India – harvard.edu
- Travel and tourism competitiveness index – vividmaps.com
- Mapping the Real-Time Air Pollution Wafting Over Cities Around the World – citylab.com
- Mapping the Organized Chaos of All of the World’s Subways – citylab.com
- Mapping The Geography of 2015 Through Massive News Mining – forbes.com
- Mapping 260 Years of Global Carbon Emissions – citylab.com
- The stunning maps that reveal the world at a glance – dailymail.co.uk
- Nuclear Powers – viewsoftheworld.net
Cartographic Events
- 10th Mountain Cartography Workshop – tu-dresden.de
- Esri UC 2016 – gisresources.com
- World Orienteering Day May 11 2016 – orienteering.org
Sites to visit
- GIS Resources – gisresources.com
- Canadian GIS & Geomatics Resource – canadiangis.com
On a Lighter Note
- The Great Polish Map of Scotland – mapascotland.org
- A Scratch-Off Map of Old New York City – citylab.com
- Google breaks out the shrink ray, maps a hyper-detailed miniature village – cnet.com
- Runner’s routes make Star Wars maps – bbc.com
- Islands – janehunterart.com
- Mapping The Drowning Eyes – maproomblog.com
- Maps for Kids – kidsmapit.com
- The True Size of Africa – twitter.com
Category: eCARTO News, General News